Drivers who use a Mobile Phone whilst Driving

[PAH]

Not from some of the people I've seen drive and use a mobile phone. Then again some of them should have been on the road anyway.

It is bad when they're driving on the pavement.

[PAH]

Driving whilst using a mobile is no more dangerous than talking to someone else in the car.

The danger is when they are using a hand to hold the phone. Which is why hands free is acceptable.

[sasguru]

I lost the will to live trying to read those options

[BrilloPad]

It's a stupid law. Driving whilst using a mobile is no more dangerous than talking to someone else in the car.

It's purely a revenue raising hidden additional tax.

Hand held phones require keeping a hand off the wheel or wedged between head and shoulder - neither are safe.

Amazing how many people think speed cameras are dangerous as you take your eye of the road - but will happily chat, eat, daydream while driving.

[VectraMan]

I wonder what would have happened if he had videoed the incident?

With a phone perhaps?

[BrilloPad]

I lost the will to live trying to read those options

Cos they were wittier than some of yours?

[Bagpuss]

The danger is when they are using a hand to hold the phone. Which is why hands free is acceptable.

I do about 20k miles a year (in an average year), the worst driving is usually to be seem by people on the phone, swerving across lanes, hitting the brakes at the last minute, turning without indicating. When holding the phone, there is always some messing that involves taking the mind off driving.
You'd expect to see more chavs up to this but surprisingly it doesn't tend to be.

Probably better that it's a warning in the first instance though

[PAH]

I always think about the young woman who died on the M3 because a truck driver was playing with his phone. Didn't see the stationary traffic, he didn't even reaslise the crumped car infront was not the one with the dead girl in. That car was so flat to the front of his truck he couldn't see it out of the windscreen.

I wonder if the last thing that went through her mind was "what an arse".

[Spacecadet]

where's the option for:
"I see so many of the winkers that if i did something about all of them then there wouldn't be enough time left in the day to sleep"

There is still a huge number of drivers openly flouting this law.
Whens there's been one on the phone behind me at traffic lights I've been very tempted to not move once the lights change back to green

[PAH]

Incredible marketing how it seems to have achieved a similar notoriety as drink driving.

People just love having something to moan about.

Same thing with speed cameras. If everyone's so upset why don't we all just take off our number plates. They can't arrest us all!